Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Italy and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Johnny Osbourne to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Can. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Bush Tetras,
One Last Wish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Goldenarms,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cure,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Adolescents,
Half Japanese,
ABC,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Ronan,
The Fuzztones,
Lakeside,
The United States of America,
Altered Images,
Lyres,
MDC,
L. Decosne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Y Pants,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grandmaster Flash,
JFA,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mantronix,
Sparks,
The Barracudas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Niagra,
The Wake,
Minnie Riperton,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Pus,
Yellowson,
Matthew Halsall,
Agitation Free,
The Evens,
Suicide,
The Vogues,
Barry Ungar,
Gang Starr,
The Golliwogs,
The Grass Roots,
The Invisible,
Charles Mingus,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Toasters,
Derrick May,
Rotary Connection,
Grey Daturas,
Barbara Tucker,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.